Very Computer

by **Dan Swartzendrube** » Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Sorry for the crosspost, but I wasn't sure which group was a better
choice. I have a K7 with a Asus K7M MB. I got a voodoo3/2000 AGP card,
and since I originally had 128MB RAM, I set the AGP aperture to 64MB (as
someone recommended I do). Worked fine. I just upgraded the RAM to 256,
and thought I should keep the aperture at 1/2 RAM, so I tweaked it to
128MB. System comes up fine as far as the XDM splash screen, then
freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. Hard reset. Reproduce this several
times. Go back into BIOS and tweak aperture back to 64MB. All is well
again. Is there something here I didn't see in the docs?

by **Tom Brinkma** » Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

regarding AGP aperture size for voodoo3/2000?:

Quote:> Sorry for the crosspost, but I wasn't sure which group was a better
> choice. I have a K7 with a Asus K7M MB. I got a voodoo3/2000 AGP
card,
> and since I originally had 128MB RAM, I set the AGP aperture to 64MB
(as
> someone recommended I do). Worked fine. I just upgraded the RAM to
256,
> and thought I should keep the aperture at 1/2 RAM, so I tweaked it to
> 128MB. System comes up fine as far as the XDM splash screen, then
> freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. Hard reset. Reproduce this several
> times. Go back into BIOS and tweak aperture back to 64MB. All is
well
> again. Is there something here I didn't see in the docs?

That behavior is prob'ly specific to your hardware. Leave
it at 64, it wouldn't matter if you set it to 4, the V3 doesn't
use sidebanding anyhow.